The Lost City of Alien Beasts

Chapter 997 Bodhi
Miss Pu stopped and looked at Gao Yang quietly.

Gao Yang pretended to be relaxed: "You want to say that the boundary of the misty world is the boundary of my knowledge."

"I live in Licheng, so Licheng is very big and very specific. I have never been to other places in reality. I only know about them through movies and books, so they have become official channels and isolated islands, because dreams cannot produce me. Concrete things outside cognition, the brain cannot create things outside its imagination.”

"The foggy world is shrinking because I am about to die. My body is weak, my brain is shrinking, and my memory, cognition, and experience are constantly being lost. I am afraid of this. This is my end."

"As for all the people I met in the mist world, they can find their prototypes in real life, so the feelings between me and them are very real."

"Let me think about it...ah, there are more!" Gao Yang said more and more enthusiastically: "The so-called human nature, animal nature, and divinity are just an extreme expression of my own emotions, desires, and reason."

"From beginning to end, this is just a dying man's dream!"

"In this dream, I played a game with my comatose brain. I cleared the level, successfully rescued myself, and woke up. Is that right?"

"Not accurate, but basically correct." Miss Pu nodded.

"That's bullshit!" Gao Yang yelled and stood up from his wheelchair: "You want to lie to me with such a rubbish script?!"

"I know what is true and what is false! Everything I experienced in the misty world is real, but you and everything now are fake!"

"I am indeed fake. I am just a piece of data implanted in your subconscious mind." Miss Pu smiled and blinked: "But why do you think the misty world is real?"

Gao Yang was speechless.

"Mr. Liu, I believe you must have felt this way, right? At a certain moment without any warning, you will suddenly feel that everything is ridiculous and everything that happens around you is meaningless. You may even think that, except for you, , everyone else is just an NPC in the game, and you haven’t spent even a second truly thinking what others are thinking or feeling what others are feeling.”

Gao Yang remained silent.

"You have never been sure for even a second that others have the same understanding as you. You have never been sure for even a second that others exist like you."

"This is what philosophy calls his heart. Think about this feeling." Miss Pu retracted her smile: "Did you often feel this way during these years in the misty world? It comes suddenly, is particularly strong, and often Expanding into a feeling of absolute authority and invincible emptiness.”

Gao Yang was silent.

Miss Pu said: "That's because you - what I mean is the 'bigger self', also called the 'real self'. The 'I' in your heart knows very well that you are in a dream, so you always remain suspicious. , no matter how much joy, happiness, perfection, sadness, pain, regret, or how extreme your experience is from your 'ego' or 'delusion' in your dreams, you can never get rid of or avoid nothingness."

"Think about the wishing well, those mysterious beings from above. They are actually the embodiment of the Jupiter virus in your dream. Do you remember, what does it want you to pay?"

"Nothingness." Gao Yang answered almost subconsciously.

"Yes, they want you to hand over nothingness."

"If you give nothing away, your 'big self' and 'true self' will lose the last life-saving straw, and your 'small self' and 'delusional self' will always sink in dreams until the end called brain death comes. "

Gao Yang remained vigilant, but also began to think seriously.

After nearly half a minute of silence, he raised his head: "You want me to believe that all of this only happened in my head."

Miss Pu responded to Gao Yang's concentration and smiled lightly: "Mr. Liu, there is no need to be pessimistic and depressed. Dreams are also meaningful. Our treatment plan never advocates a complete separation between the Jupiter traveler and one's dream world. This is not conducive to recovery. .Actually, you can approach it in a different way."

"What idea?" Gao Yang asked.

"Not everything happens only in your head, but everything happens in your head." Gao Yang was stunned.

"For you humans, your brain is your universe, these thousands of worlds. You were like this in your dream, and it is still like this now that you are about to wake up."

"No matter where you are, your brain will always be your universe, all these thousands of worlds. This will never change, right?"

"One flower, one world, one leaf, one Bodhi." Gao Yang remembered this sentence inexplicably.

"That's great." Miss Pu's smile seemed to be filled with genuine relief: "I have a hunch that your subsequent recovery journey will surpass that of 99% of Jupiter travelers."

Gao Yang couldn't say he was giving up, but he smiled fearlessly: "Then can I wake up and show me the real world? I can't wait."

"You are still full of doubts in your heart. This is normal. Your mental state has stabilized and you will be undergoing a deep awakening procedure."

Miss Pu said, stretching out her hands on both sides of the corridor: "Before that, there are some things I need to tell you."

"Our company provides free treatment to all Jupiter travelers for 30 days, and the subsequent treatment work is paid."

"After your parents died, you automatically inherited the inheritance. We have automatically deducted it for you during the treatment process. Currently, your credit limit is only 36 points, which is only enough for you to support one more day of basic treatment."

"You are lucky to wake up before the credits are used up, otherwise our company will hold a special meeting to decide your life or death, and the possibility of giving up treatment is 57.2%."

"You have successfully awakened now. As long as you sign an in-depth cooperation agreement with our company, you can get long-term free follow-up treatment from our company."

"As expected of a big company, it's really humane." Gao Yang said expressionlessly.

"There is one more thing I need to ask for your permission."

"Everything you experience in your dream is converted into a holographic image using our company's technology and stored in the cloud. You can come to the company to visit and review it at any time."

"clear."

"However, we will only automatically save it for you for three months. After three months, if you have not established in-depth cooperation with our company and are not a member of our company, the dream data will be permanently deleted. Our company's annual membership fee is 300 credits. "

"Then I don't have enough money." Gao Yang sneered.

"Through big data analysis, dream experiences can help patients retrieve real-life memories and have a positive effect on patient recovery. Considering your current financial situation, I recommend that you choose to cooperate in depth with our company after waking up."

"What if I don't?"

"Then I suggest you find a job immediately, or seek help from relatives and friends. You will be fine if you pay the annual fee within three months."

"After you wake up, you will have a free recovery course for a week. After that, you can go through the procedures with the relevant personnel. It will not be too late to make a decision at that time."

"I know." Gao Yang replied.

"Then, I wish Mr. Liu a speedy recovery and all the best." Miss Pu picked up the whistle on her chest, put it in her mouth, and blew hard.

"Shh-"

(End of this chapter)